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I ceated the group with gid 500 and I have my user in the group.
If I check the permissions from nautilus I see that /mnt/wind is in tat group and not in the root group. The owner still is root, and I don't want to change that.
How do I change the mode so my user (not root) can read and write all files inside that filesystem?
I want
owner: rwx
group:rw-
other:r--

Well, after 10 reboots, I got it working. In the process I learned it does not make sense to remove the execute permission, doing it makes it impossible to do an ls or a cd and nautilus goes crazy and can list the contents prperly.
Here's the fin al version

/dev/hda5 /mnt/wind vfat rw,user,suid,umask=002,gid=500 0 0
and the result
drwxrwxr-x 10 root windaccess 16384 Dec 31 1969 wind
As my user is in the group, I can r and w it. Other users can read it. nice. Thanks.

EDIT: i just noticed, why does it have that timestamp????? Looks weird.....